SAPRINI, DERMESTES AND OTHERS
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Twenty thousand, Réaumur tells us, twenty thousand embryos in the body of the Grey Flesh-fly! Twenty thousand! What does she want with this formidable family? With offspring that reproduce themselves several times in a year, does she intend to dominate the world? She would be capable of it. Speaking of the Bluebottle, who is far less prolific, Linnæus4 already wrote:
“Three Flies consume the carcase of a Horse as quickly as a Lion could do it.”
What could not the other accomplish?